A labourer employed to do unskilled work in a shearing shed.
〈澳／新西兰〉剪羊棚杂工；舍内剪羊毛工
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Visitors meet the shearers, shedhands, sheep and dogs who work in the shearing and wool industries.
He was an immensely strong man who worked as a scrubcutter and shedhand at Awhea Station for many years in the period around World War I.
For the next 12 years he published Shearing, a magazine for shearers and shedhands.
The experience is interactive, educational, entertaining and fun as visitors meet the shearers, shedhands, sheep and dogs that work in the shearing and wool industry.
From 1990 until 1995 Andrew worked in the Coolah, Dunedoo and Dubbo districts as a station hand with a period in the Guyra district as a shedhand.
Once the shearer has taken the wool off the sheep, the shedhand gathers it up and throws it on a special table so that it lies flat to enable the lower-grade portions of the fleece to be removed.
A shearing gang comprises of four shearers, two or three shedhands and a presser.
The machines are humming again, the shedhands begin to sing and some of the weariness falls away.
He even questions whether the farmer should supply the sheep, and provide shearers and shedhands with basic amenities, like clean water and accommodation.
I got a young shedhand to have a few drinks with him and tell him he was waiting for a shed to start.